DOCUMENT is pleased to present A Variety Show, a solo exhibition of new work by Chicago based artist Scott Fortino.

A Variety Show is a selection of eight new color photographs that have emerged out of the artists’ recent shift towards a studio practice. Fortino’s previous work primarily consisted of traditional documentary images which stem from his interest in the military, training academies, and eventually camouflage fabrics worn by soldiers. Fortino’s interests recently have led him to adjust focus to the subject’s materiality. Bringing these materials into his studio he constructs screens and blinds that explore the idea of synthetic concealment. With this new interest in fabricating these environments he started including glass, colored paper and metallic surfaces in his new abstract works.

Fortino has developed his approach to photography out of his experiences directly related to his position as a Chicago police officer. This work led to the publication of his monograph, Institutional, which depicts institutional architectural spaces while revealing the embedded evidence of personal use. Now retired, he uses his studio as a site for his own investigations into the meaning of light and materials.

Scott Fortino (b. 1952, Chicago, IL) lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. He received his BA from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His solo exhibitions include, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. His work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, and numerous public and private collections.

Available Works

Elizabeth Atterbury

Elizabeth Atterbury (born 1982, West Palm Beach, FL) lives and works in Portland, Maine. Recent solo and group shows include Kate Werble Gallery, The Portland Museum of Art, Mrs, The Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, kijidome, Boston, Document, Chicago, TSA, Brooklyn, Bodega, Philadelphia/New York, KANSAS, New York, and The ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, among others. In the Middle, An Oasis, a monograph of her work, was published by Bodega Press in 2013.

She received her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from MassArt.

The Well, The Wall, 2016 Silver gelatin print 20 x 24 in

The Well, The Wall II, 2016 Silver gelatin print
20 x 24 in

Beach Woks (Marks of a Tool II), 2016 Silver gelatin print 20 x 24 in

Still Life with Popcorn and Pits, 2016 Silver gelatin print 11 x 14 in

MAÑANA VAPOR

Julien Creuzet

SKETCH GALLERY

On view: November 23rd, 2017 – February 15th, 2018

French Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet presents Mañana Vapor, his first solo show in Colombia at SKETCH. He composes an intuitive and fertile encounter, composed by poems, installations and visual and sound assemblages. Fragments of poems and photographs are superimposed and printed on to polished surfaces, feverishly wanting to escape from the video that contains them and whisper magic stories into your ears. From his collages he creates powerful visual narratives, erasing the borders between documentary, fantasy and reality; a reverse that lets us go beyond the thinkable, between the occult and the visible. Through his hybrid works Julien Creuzet recovers objects and myths that history has, to date, left aside to make its own agenda prevail. Then and only then Julien Creuzet stories reveal themselves as possible: they shine in silence waiting for our hands to embrace them.

DOCUMENT is a commercial gallery located in Chicago that specializes in contemporary photography, film and media based art. The gallery has organized more than 30 solo exhibitions since its opening in 2011 and actively promotes the work of emerging national and international artists. Operating conjointly as a professional printmaking studio, DOCUMENT facilitates the production of works by artists from Chicago and the US.
At this time we do not accept unsolicited submissions.